Lessons from a Lifetime of Paying Attention: Rebbetzin Shoshana Schachter
Behind the Bima
Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
4.8 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From Bokuritone, Florida, this is Behind the Bima. |
| 0:04.0 | On this episode, the Robbers are joined by Rebetson Shachner. |
| 0:07.0 | In a thoughtful conversation, Rebitts and Schechter draws on lived experience to reflect on spiritual development, |
| 0:12.0 | talks about personal responsibility, and shares the quiet work that shapes who we become. |
| 0:17.0 | When so many are searching for direction and depth, Rebitts and Schachter explores what it looks |
| 0:21.2 | like to grow steadily, honestly, and with intention. All this and more, Behind the Bima. This season |
| 0:28.8 | of Behind the Bima is sponsored by Julie Charleston and Darrell Benjamin in honor of their grandparents |
| 0:33.5 | Morton and Malvina Charleston and their children, Ruby and Maccabi Benjamin. |
| 0:41.3 | Welcome to the newest episode of Behind the Bima. |
| 0:44.4 | Yehevd and I had an amazing conversation with Rebitten Schechter. |
| 0:48.3 | Whole world knows and talks about and listens to Rav Schechter. |
| 0:51.7 | And Rebentzschechter makes her presence known as well in her own way. |
| 0:58.8 | But this was an amazing conversation behind the Bima with her really excited. But now I'm excited to hear from you, Rabbi Moskowitz, about how the marathon went. You trained, you ran. And I'll just introduce it by asking, last night you and I attended |
| 1:03.8 | to see you may hashas. I think that's the plural. Two people back to back Meda Cema, |
| 1:08.8 | Shas. One finished Bavli and Yushami in four years. They my shas. One finished Bavli and Yurashami in four years. |
| 1:13.4 | They set a goal and they finished Bavli and Yerushammy in four years. And the other finished at Bavli. |
| 1:18.5 | And each of them were emotional. Each of them spoke. It was a personal simcha, an enormous |
| 1:24.7 | accomplishment. But I was thinking about you're running the marathon in the |
| 1:28.5 | morning and then our being at the finish line of two marathons in the evening. And just the idea |
| 1:32.8 | of setting a goal, putting one foot in front of the other, running out of steam but not given up, |
| 1:37.6 | continuing. And the themes of marathon and what it takes to get through it, whether it's the |
| 1:42.3 | physical marathon you set for yourself or the spiritual marathon of Dafiomi or other goals that people make for themselves. |
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